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Metadata

DS ID:

DS713

Shelfmark:

LJS 476

Title:

Yesod ʻolam

Yesod ʻolam

Author:

Israeli, Isaac ben Joseph, active 14th century

Isaac Israeli ben Joseph WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain or Italy

Spain TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1460?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment and paper, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 70 leaves : parchment and paper, illustrations ; 198 x 136 (140 x 88) mm bound to 210 x 146 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dessauer, M. 1842-1895

Moritz Dessauer WIKIDATA

Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (Hungary)

Budapest University of Jewish Studies WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment and paper, i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper); 118 2-320 420(-8); [1-70], modern foliation in pencil, upper left and upper center recto. Gatherings have outermost and central bifolia of parchment with paper bifolia in between.
Layout: Written in 40 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.
Script: Written in Sephardic Hebrew script.
Decoration: 37 astronomical diagrams representing orbits, eclipses, and other phenomena, with spaces left blank for additional diagrams.
Binding: Modern leather, blind-tooled, with 2 clasps.
Origin: Written in Spain or Italy, ca. 1460.
Formerly owned by Moritz Dessauer, founding rabbi of the synagogue in Meiningen; inscription, Geschenk des Landrabbiners Dr. M. Dessauer in Meiningen, recording gift by Dessauer to unknown recipient (inside lower cover).
Formerly in the library of Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (the Rabbincal Seminary of Budapest), K. 209.
Offered for sale by Jörn Gunther Antiquariat (Basel, Switzerland), Brochure 8 (2004), item 17.
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Fall 2005.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Hebrew

Fifteenth century

Manuscripts, Renaissance

diagrams

treatises

codices (bound manuscripts)

Jewish astronomy

Early works

Astronomy, Medieval

Astronomy

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9958580733503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ww82/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania